The Christmas Ring: A Holiday Romance (Kingsbury, Karen)

Matthew 6:21 says, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” But “treasures are rare and never easy to find…Like poetry, antiques are proof that the past happened. That it was real…Antiques let you hold a piece of history in your hand. And wonder about the person who held it first.” “God doesn’t always answer our prayers with a yes…But that was true for Jesus, too. His greatest prayer in the garden of Gethsemane was met with a ‘no.’” As military widow Vanessa knows, “Believing didn’t mean things would go her way…God had answered all her prayers. Life hadn’t turned out how either she or Ben had planned. But God’s plans were still good. Better than Vanessa or Ben ever could’ve dreamed. God had ordered their steps and here they were. Because home wasn’t a place—it was the people Vanessa loved. Home. It was all part of the miracle…With God, to love again was possible.” “This was the year God had brought more than one miracle into her life. So maybe it was possible, after all. First Ben Miller. And now, just maybe, her long-lost Christmas ring.” As Vanessa, her daughter Sadie, and widower Ben Miller discover, “Love is the greatest diamond in the rough. Especially at Christmastime” and “the gift of time is the greatest gift of all…The trick is knowing when to hold on to the past…And when to let it go…Forgiveness is the fabric that brings about a beautiful Christmas for us all.” ‘ Karen Kingsbury’s The Christmas Ring is a jewel ringed with a circle of glimmering diamonds of patriotism, family, love and redemption.